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    Mike Jacobs: Wind is blowing in conflict
    The wind is pretty much taken for granted in North Dakota. Maybe that's because wind is almost never in short supply. Perhaps for the same reason,...
    opinion/columns1 hour 49 min ago
    December 17, 2018
    The Dakota Women's Correctional and Rehabilitation Center in New England, N.D., pictured here April 17, 2012, houses more than 100 female convicted felons. Forum News Service file photo
    Rob Port: Prisons aren’t jobs programs
    Governor Doug Burgum’s executive budget his ignited several debates over policy and spending across the state. Perhaps one of the most heated...
    opinion/columns20 hours 39 min ago
    December 16, 2018
    Rob Port
    Port: Heitkamp’s angry goodbye
    MINOT, N.D. -- This week Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said farewell with an address on the floor of the Senate. The timing was less than ideal.
    opinion/columnsDecember 16, 2018 - 9:12am
    Veeder: Maybe mothers aren't all that different from spider that gives everything to its kids
    On a long, late night drive last week, I stumbled upon a radio program that aims to explore the topic of love and how it unfolds, beats, bends...
    opinion/columnsDecember 16, 2018 - 7:41am
    Jon Hauser
    Hauser: Distraction can lead to inaction during Christmas season
    FARGO -- Joseph and Mary, who was with child, traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem to participate in a mandatory census. While they were in Bethlehem...
    opinion/columnsDecember 16, 2018 - 6:15am
    December 14, 2018
    Roxane Salonen
    Salonen: Hubby celebrates ‘first’ birthday with heart
    FARGO -- “I wouldn’t mind a cake with one candle to celebrate my first birthday,” my husband requested one evening recently. Until then,...
    opinion/columnsDecember 14, 2018 - 9:35am
    Phillips: Kindness can bring us to our knees
    Have you ever bitten off more than you could chew? I’m not talking about the Christmas ham — I’m talking about a project you thought you...
    opinion/columnsDecember 14, 2018 - 7:47am
    December 13, 2018
    The Belfield American Legion Color Guard marches toward the Belfield Theatre for the town's Memorial Day Services on Monday, May 30, 2016. (Dustin Monke / The Dickinson Press)
    Port: Governor Burgum and a Republican lawmaker want to exempt military pay and pensions from state income taxes and it’s a solid idea
    North Dakota has thousands and thousands of military members, both active duty and retired, living in our state. North Dakota has a chronic labor...
    opinion/columnsDecember 13, 2018 - 10:13am
    Nicole Phillips, Kindness is Contagious columnist.
    Kindness is Contagious: Kindness can bring us to our knees
    Have you ever bitten off more than you could chew? I’m not talking about the Christmas ham — I’m talking about a project you thought you...
    opinion/columnsDecember 13, 2018 - 10:02am
    December 12, 2018
    The campus of the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton. Special to The Forum.
    Port: North Dakota has seen a significant drop in student loan debt loads
    Are North Dakota students getting smarter about how they finance higher education? It sure seems that way. The cost of attending institutions...
    opinion/columnsDecember 12, 2018 - 9:42am
    Port: Legislative pettiness leads to marginalization of Burgum’s conservative budget
    MINOT, N.D. -- Traditionally in North Dakota the governor's executive budget, delivered to lawmakers as an address in December, is introduced...
    opinion/columnsDecember 12, 2018 - 7:01am
    December 11, 2018
    Congressman Kevin Cramer, U.S. Sen. John Hoeven and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum hosted EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt at a closed roundtable discussion in Fargo Wednesday, Aug. 9. Dave Olson/Forum News Service
    Rob Port: Governor Burgum, Senator-elect Cramer tell NDGOP in letter not to give up open primary
    Last week I wrote about proposed legislation, being considered for endorsement by the North Dakota Republican Party, which if passed would end...
    opinion/columnsDecember 11, 2018 - 7:53pm
    Mike Jacobs: Lawmakers set to challenge governor
    Poor Doug Burgum! So many ideas and so little power. So many votes, but none where it counts. As governor, Burgum has a nice title and a bully...
    opinion/columnsDecember 11, 2018 - 6:10am
    December 10, 2018
    Sen. Heidi Heitkamp concedes the North Dakota senate race, at an election night event in Fargo, N.D., Nov. 6, 2018. (Hilary Swift/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Rob Port: Maybe Heidi Heitkamp could give some of her left over money to her campaign’s victims
    Senator Heidi Heitkamp has a lot of money left over from her unsuccessful 2018 campaign.
    opinion/columnsDecember 10, 2018 - 11:00am
    December 9, 2018
    Sometimes, adults can learn a lesson about embracing life from children like 3-year-old Edie. Jessie Veeder / Forum News Service
    Veeder: The light of childhood reminds us to embrace life
    It’s no secret there are things in this life that are ruined by adulthood.
    opinion/columnsDecember 9, 2018 - 9:01am
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